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Monday, 17 November 2014
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Tech students need to work on communication, soft-skills
Country's
largest software exporter TCS, which is in the process of hiring 25,000 people
from the campuses and raise it to 35,000 next fiscal, feels the education institutes
must pay special attention to improve communication and soft skills of their
students.
"From
an improvement point of view, we have been telling institutes that
communications and soft skills are something that can be looked at... which
will make people a bit more ready," executive vice-president and global
head for human resources Ajoy Mukherjee told.
He,
however, said TCS, which is arguably one of the biggest hirers at the country's
campuses and has over 3.13 lakh headcounts already, is contended with the
technical skills of the freshers which it hires.
"If
you ask me from a youngster's point of view, when they are coming in they are
very much digitally savvy. Technology-wise, given our selection process, we are
able to select the right candidates for our requirements," he said.
Mukherjee
said the company plans to give offers to 35,000 freshers from 350-400
institutes during FY16, which is 10,000 more than the ones for FY15.
He
said the company conducts a dialogue with the heads of the institutes it gives
offers and inform them of the need to work on the students' soft skills.
After
declaring a 13.2% growth for the July-September quarter profit at Rs 5,244
crore, TCS chief executive and managing director N Chandrasekaran had said that
he was bullish about 2015-16.
"Across
the sectors, and across markets, we remain very positive. If at all, we are
only increasing our investments both in sales and capability building. We have
already hired 36,000 (as against targeted 55,000 for FY15)...So, we remain
bullish about next year," he had said.
Mukherjee
said the growth in business has resulted in the likelihood of the company
overshooting its overall hiring target of 55,000 for the current fiscal.
"Look
at our volume growth in H1, it has been very good and this (overshooting) is
based on that," Mukherjee said, adding that TCS is conservative when it
comes to setting targets.
The
company reported a volume growth of 6.1% in the September quarter, on a
sequential basis.
Of
the 25,000 offers made for FY15, Mukherjee said he expects 71-72% freshers to
actually join the company this fiscal.
He
said the company has undertaken many initiatives to help students, including a
portal called 'Campus Commune' which acts as a knowledge sharing platform for
the students before they join the company.
The
company had a total of 3.13 lakh employees as of September end, out of which
1.03 lakh or 32.7% are women.
Mukherjee
said the decision to have a greater number of women in the workforce is a
conscious one taken from having the diversity among the staff.
He,
however, refused to share a hierarchical break-up of the women employees and
restricted himself to state that in the past few years, the number of women in
the mid-and top- management is improving.
The
company also does not have a target on the number or percentage of the working
staff when it comes to women, it said.
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